Page Four 7W C: AA I (U ICAKI MA II V Ip HL M K JfUtN D LILY Sunday, Septemb4 3UNDAY MAGAZINE LOOKING BA( er 26, 1976 Kll THE WEEK IN REVIEW, Rhodesia reluctance on the part of Smith,' however, and it remains to be, seen whether the deal will be agreement fully realized. After many long years of in Said the 56-year-old Prime tense international pressure and Minister: "It was made abun- stepped-up guerrilla activity, dantly clear to me that as long Prime Minister Ian Smith of as the present circumstances in Rhodesia announced Friday that Rhodesia prevailed, we could he and his government will ac- expect no help or support of cept a plan for black majority any kind from the free world. rule in two years. On the contrary, the pressures on us from the free world would The proposal, authored and continue to mount." cemented in large part by Sec- retary of State Henry Kissing- Additionally, the unique brand er, also calls for immediate of Kissinger shuttle diplomacy implementation of a bi-racial paid off and, to be sure, his regime. The move, which many actions and efforts will go down believe should have been made as one of his most stunning ac- long ago, was made with much complishments. The Secretary of State has blunted, at least winner by a slight margin. for this moment, the ugly pros- Regardless of which man won pect of racial war in Rhodesia.o egsrtes de apoe There is, however, some ques- or lost, the first debate proved Tion asoweherorotm ithuessomething of an anti-climax, wilanetotaethe thor not S it one which neither significantly wi at ewi tebackaltered the standing of the can- majority in good faith. His un- didates nor reshaped their basic the past will not be forgotten strategies. One thing it did by he ativetfrica tand prove was that both candidates shoulde naivshenaicans, t clearly differ on such things as place the whole ag reement amnesty, tax reform and the could be in vain They won't economy. Both candidates, on could boe tin vain. th ey wn't the whole, also stuck with their easily forget Smith's determ- respective party platforms and mned vow that "there wviii be ideology no black rule in Rhodesia ini my lifetime." For example, Jimmy Carter * * * reiterated his vow to pardon all draft evaders while the Presi- The d batesdent upheld his disastrous am- nesty program of 1974-75. Ford The first of three Presidential advocated a trickle-down theory debates was held this past on the-reby big business profits dits called it a draw, despite and stability would be passed the fact that a poll immediate- Carter tespused increased whv- ly following the internationally ementspedin. televised event however show- ed President Gerald Ford the The next debate, to be held Oct. 6 in San Francisco, will focus on international affairs. There has also been talk of changing the format of that de- bate whereby the candidates will be free to debate each other face-to-face with rebuttals and counterarguments instead > .. of merely responding to the. questions of the panelists. HRP members today On political matters a little closer to home, TherDaily re- Carter ported last week that former members of the Human Rights Alexander, a former member' Party - a once strong alter- of the party, "those people who native to Democratic and Re- had once looked for an alter- publican demogogery in the city native party were no longer - have abandoned their third around. It was obvious we had party and moved into the ranks no support; two-thirds of our of the Democrats. people had either left town or' "After '75," commented Bob gone out of politics altogether. found a certain attraction for the Democrats. Such was the case for Bess Manchester, who was involved with the HRP's Day Care bal- lot proposal during the 1975 election. "1 was disgusted and discouraged with HRP," she said. She felt that the HRP members elected to City Coun- cil were not representative of the mass of party members. Perhaps the most appropriate obituary of the Ann Arbor party comes from Eric Jackson, one of two HRP city council mem- bers in Ypsilanti. "In Ann Ar- bor politics - both radical and establishment - there is a cer- tain element of elite intellectu- alism. Between any three peo- ple there's at least two factions. Ann Arbor HRP got so involved in ideological disputes that they lost their roots in the elector- ate." This teas prepared by Daily Co-editor-in-chief Rob Mea- chU in. F-ord So, seeing the writing on the wall, I left." Alexander and others see their role as one of infiltrating the party and trying to make it more progressive. Others, how- ever, were "disgusted" with the direction of the HRP and ANN AUUC0 [ELM CC-Cr TOMORROW IN MLB A RARE CINEMATIC EVENT TWO FILMS BY ROBERT BRESSON PICKPOCKET 7 ONLY PICKPOCKET is the famous story of the psychological states of a pickpocket, Michel, who is anonymous and insignificant, and finally can only find freedom in prison. 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The epic form tends to mag- nify the Work's faults. Had he been writing prose, an author with Burgess's originality and linguistic cleverness (both de- monstrated in previous works such as M/F and A Clock- work Orange) might still have succeeded. It is only fair to note that Moses does contain a number of brilliant passages. Partic- ularly notable in its brutal im- agery is the description of the Passover and the ten plagues visited upon Egypt, the hor- ror of which few other works, least of all the Old Testament, have ever captured fully. Bur- gess depicts the Egyptians as a people bound by religion and tradition, rather than as a race of tyrants. Their suffering is both touching and painful. II. Fr- ti d it u. in 6: TUESDAY LUNCH--DISCUSSION dept. 28 "Korea-aught in the Power Struggle" Speaker: ROY WHANG, Journalist forrmerly for the FAR EASTERN ECONOMIC REVIEW in Hong Kong and Seoul at the ECUMENICAL CAMPUS CENTER 921 CHURCH ST. LUNCH-75c 12 NOON Lunch is prepared and served by CHURCH WOMEN UNITED OF ANN ARBOR f his element Burgess' dialogue, on the oth- er hand, often tends to be as stilted as his descriptions are eloquent. The Bible indicates that Moses was "a halting speaker", but in this author's hands he becomes a character severely in need of speech therapy: "Beware of such. Images. The reality is that . We are a. Different animal. We scent our. Own Destiny. We must be free.; To track it.' This stultifying pace is ob- viously impossible to maintain, and within SO pages Moses in-x congruously becomes as fluent as a politician on the Fourth a devoutly religious people, the of July. Erratic and inconsist- Israelites are instead selfish ent character development such and rebellious. Their accept- as this is the rule throughout ance of God is at best tenuous, the poem. and even then only when con- The few characters who es- venient. Burgess introduces a cape this treatment suffer from ' modern problem when some of being treated in the opposite them eventually become over- way -they are described with zealous and fanatical in their distressing consistency. An ex- !religious practice, and find it ample is the stereotypically, necessary to appoint themselves evil Dathan, a character so guardians of public morality. predictably sleazy that he pro- Burgess ability to present jects a mental picture of an problems like these makes oim oily villian from a silent movie, wonder why he has so much FT SHOULD BE MADE clear, . trouble with dialogue and char- though, that Burgess does acter development. His past succeed in humanizing many works prove bevond a doubt rigid and cold Biblical charac- that he is a skillful writer, so ters (particularly the central the answer cannot be lack of character.) Herein lies the talent. His problems perhaps work's main strength. Moses stem from his lack of experi- is never a stalwart hero: he is ence in the epic form, which plagred by self-doubt and doubt leads back to the quYestion of of God, who forces upon him why he chose to use it. the grudging accentance of his Although Burgess is quick to leadership of the Israelites extol the benefits of verse nar- Pharoah is neither cold nor rative in cinematic adaptations, heartless, but rather a leader his logic of first writing Moses committed to the old gods and in that form, so that it would to the survival of Egypt be more suitable to television, through maintenance of the sta-. is not very convincing. And it tus quo. "'Does it satisfy you,"' is articularly regrettable in he asks of Moses, "'to have im- light of the author's occasional naired, even part destroyed, flashes of brilliance, which this great Flower of order? 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Also re- ; ple. sponsible are a series of inter- "WE WORKED with groups locking alliances with poli- all over the country trying to ticians, policymakers and aca- be all things to all black peo- demicians, both black and ple," said Rep. Louis Stokes, white. (D-Ohio), the second caucus AT THE SAME time-the can- chairman. cus has managed to keep to- After a period of self-evalua- gether a diverse membership. tion the caucus concluded that All are black and all are Demo- its emphasis should be placed crats, but as Rep Charles Diggs less on calling attention to of Michigan notes: "The caucus problems by holding hearings covers a pretty good spectrum all over the country and more of ideology." on the development of a legis- "There is someone in the lative roeram The unas This Thursday.. . MICHIGAN UNION ACTIAVE Al pc g . agreed to try to broaden its. in- fluence in Congress by seeking appointments for members to three key committees: Ways and Means, Appropriations and Rliles. "We are legislators and there- fore our sphere of influence is legislative," Stokes said the caucus realized. "Our job was to put a black perspective on any and all legislation." ®I